Writing these blogs gives someone a whole new perspective about what you are reading. It isn't an essay explaining your understanding of the topic, and it isn't a summary of what you think you've read. It's something completely different. You need to write how it made you feel, what you believe the other was trying to express, the symbolism, the diction. It is basically the thought process that runs through your mind and flows onto the computer screen after you've read the poem or story. In some cases (like in a few of my own), there is a paragraph of research put into the post, to help you better understand why the poet or author has written what they have. For example in "Those Winter Sundays" I learned that perhaps the author wrote the poem reflecting his own past (although it was not stated it makes sense when you read the authors childhood background). Other cases may be posts like this. They are related to the course, but not completely on a story or a poem, maybe they were extensions of your mind's thoughts after reading a poem (as in how my previous post was about how the human mind works), or a post about how punctuation really grinds your gears!
I felt like this assignment really expanded my thinking, it made me think and use a larger vocabulary, think about my grammar, and work on my punctuation. It helped me reflect back on some previous points in my life, and relate them to where I stand now in my English language.
I've read some of the other blogs posts from the others in the class, and learned something else. How hard it is to comment on someone else's work! You cannot simply say "Wow! I enjoyed that! It made really made me think about the poem!" You need to express opinions, and points of interest. How hard could that be? Well it's hard if you aren't really sure about the poem or story yourself! That is why I slightly enjoyed going off topic in my posts, although they are still related to the CM 1120 class, I believe they are more relatable by other students who may not have read "The Red Convertable" or "My Mistress' Eyes be Nothing Like The Sun" (sorry if that is wrong). Everyone knows how punctuation can be a pain, and I'm sure everyone can relate to procrastinating on their research paper!
To end this I'd like to state that these posts are due at midnight tonight, along with 5 comments on other peoples blogs. (Which I am now heading off to do, before starting a long night of studying calculus!)
So thank you all for reading my posts and for all the wonderful comments! I really appreciate it! Also I hope others enjoyed this project as much as I did.
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